We Still Hold These Truths

Foreword By William J. Bennett

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Alexander Hamilton - When a nation has actually come

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Alexander Hamilton Pacificus Essays

Categories: Liberty / Freedom, Right of Revolution

Date: July 3, 1793

When a nation has actually come to a resolution to throw off a yoke, under which it may have groaned, and to assert its liberties, it is justifiable and meritorious in another, to afford assistance to the one which has been oppressed, and is in the act of liberating itself; but it is not warrantable for any nation beforehand, to hold out a general invitation to insurrection and revolution, by promising to assist every people who may wish to recover their liberty, and to defend those citizens of every country who have been, or who may be, vexed for the cause of liberty; still less to commit to the generals of its armies, the discretionary power of judging when the citizens of a foreign country have been vexed for the cause of liberty by their own government.

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